Sentences with phrase «democratic practice»

The link between psychotherapy and the public domain, I now realize, is through seeing therapy as a form of democratic practice that starts in the consulting room.

It is also not in line with democratic practices and due process.

Isn't it time for a democracy to bring more democratic practices to education?

The participants will walk away with the knowledge of how to promote democratic practice within the classroom and incorporate individual project work to foster learner independence and responsibility.

This workshop will help visual art educators increase Democratic Practice through student choice and voice.

Teachers need tools to support the incorporation of arts integration and democratic practice into regular classroom practice.

This is the type of democratic practice in most countries in the world, particularly, the United States of America, Germany, France etc..

President Mahama also cited the peace and security Ghana currently enjoys as inspiration to other African countries like Guinea Bissau to aspire to better democratic practices in equal measure.

A state long known for policy innovation — social security, welfare reform, school vouchers, and much more — is now witnessing a seldom - seen but dreadful abuse of basic democratic practice — the abuse of the legislative quorum call.

Begin by Exploring the HOT APPROACH by sending staff, leadership and parents to attend professional development offered monthly in each of the HOT School Core Components of Strong Arts, Arts Integration and Democratic Practice as well as cutting - edge pedagogy and relevant issues.

The topics cover a variety of areas including democratic practices in school, the validity and authenticity of student voice, the multiplicity of students» experiences, and the authority of students in school.

It has been concerned with urging enforcement of the Helsinki Accords in America, an international treaty on democratic practices which, according to some activists, America is believed to violate by its perceived restrictions on minor parties.

In Western countries like Australia and the United States, authoritative parenting includes certain democratic practices — like taking children's preferences into account when making family plans, or encouraging kids to express their own, possibly divergent, opinions.

Now, while it's important to identify the essential and abstract principles that should guide democratic practice, in my view there's been a certain cost to this abstraction — or what in the book I call «social weightlessness» — it shifts attention away from concrete issues of inequality and oppression.

The proposal here for a citizens» initiative to launch a constitutional convention thus represents an innovation in current democratic practice, linking citizen mobilization through signature collection with the launch of a (citizen - based) constitutional convention.

Through that process, the U.S. urges unwavering respect for the rule of law and for established democratic practices.»

Our penchant for undermining well known democratic practices, lack of internal democracy, the crave for personal interests as against the general good of the party and the determined posturing of self before others, are to mention a few, the root causes of our political dilemma in the state.

Online tools are revitalising old democratic practices — and might even mean the end for politicians.

Documentation, in particular, supports democratic practice by generating a research orientation, inviting in multiple voices, facilitating listening, and producing cultural artifacts.

Warren is interested in the development of community leaders through involvement in multiracial political action as well as the outcomes of such efforts in fostering community development, social justice, and school transformation; and is committed to using the results of scholarly research to advance democratic practice.

Strong Arts is infused by providing a vehicle for students to demonstrate their understandings and express their thoughts in and through the arts while Democratic Practice becomes a natural means of giving students choice and a voice for communicating their ideas.

In restructuring the education system, policymakers focused on creating democratic practices that would promote access to education for all students.

It grounds academic learning in respectful relationships, creating space for all students» voices, and so brings meaning to democratic practices inside and outside the classroom.

Ballot initiatives are as close to a pure democratic practice as one is likely to find.

Well, for one thing, the Fair Elections Act gets rid of a time - honoured Canadian democratic practice called «vouching.»

The point is not to try an impossible divorce of corporation from politics, but to assure that its politics are consistent with democratic practices...» He goes on to suggest that there is currently a «crisis of membership» in the corporation.

George Washington, out of respect for basic democratic practice, urged the officers of the Continental Army not to take extra-legal action vis a vis Congress when they suffered not a modest increase in the contribution to a benefit plan but serious financial deprivations after they had risked their lives on behalf of the nation.

As a Connecticut Spotlight Higher Order Thinking School (HOT School) we use the core component of Democratic Practice to give students voice and choice.

President John Mahama has praised Ghana as a nation that continues to inspire other Sub-Saharan African countries to strive for better democratic practices.

The entire staff of your authoritative Ghana Daily newspaper wishes all Ghanaians all the very best in the quest to cement Ghana's democratic practice in Africa.

Many strands shared a bias for moral excellence as well as a worry that democratic practice and egalitarianism threatened liberty and order.

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

One of the foundational commitments motivating The Ethics of Interrogation was that robust debate among professionals is central to democratic practice, and so I welcome Mukasey's highly critical assessment of my book.

Quid pro quo electoral exchanges, in which votes are bartered for particular services rendered, are considered «bad» democratic practice.

He is also currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster teaching innovations in democratic practice, as well as a research assistant at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham researching accountability in local governance.

Elections caught with fraud, corruption and violence can destabilise a country, allowing citizens to loose fate in the process of democratic practice.

However, it's not good democratic practice that their departments are accountable to the Commons through junior ministers.

Kofi Annan, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, would also highlight some of the challenges to democratic practice and suggest how they could be addressed to ensure Africa's and Ghana's democracies continue to thrive in the 2Ist century.

And of course, this is the democratic practice in Nigeria.

«The exercise violated all known principles of democratic practice.

For social democratic parties the challenge is to reinvent their democratic practices and party forms, while remaining electorally competitive — a challenge that is a lot easier to state than to meet.

The conference, with the theme: «Democracy and Political Consultancy,» would witness the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, leading professionals drawn from different parts of Africa, America, Asia and Europe to x-ray the vital place of political consultancy in Africa's democratic practice and culture.

Learn how to foster a classroom culture where groups create and transmit culture, values, and democratic practices

So it is disconcerting to see the President of the United States express his support for the unions and Democrats in Wisconsin without any condemnation whatsoever of an abuse of a basic democratic practice.

Indiana and Wisconsin's governors need to hold tough, not just because of the merits of this particular case but, more importantly, to forestall such violations of state law and democratic practice in the future.